Mounting for cigar lighters



June 17, 1930. am go 1,764,899

MOUNTING FQR CIGAR LIGHTERS Filed Nov. 1. 1926 (Ea/WM Ja a;

Patented June 17, 1930 JOHN SINKO, OF CHICAGQ; ILLINOIS.

MOUNTING ron emeam nmns Application filed November 1,1926. -eria1 No, 145,645.

One of the common accessories ofthe modern automobile is the electric cigar lighter, and a well-known type of electric cigar lighter consists of a casing in which is vjournaled a reel or drum carrying an electric cord. One end of said cord extends through a hole in the casing and is equipped with a knob or tip in which is mounted a fine wire filament included in the electric circuit line. When the cord is drawn out and unwound from the reel the circuitis closed and the filament is heated to incandescence. When the knob is released the circuit is broken and the cord is rewound on the reel by a clock spring.

The instrument board, in most makes of cars, consists of a flat sheet-metal panel that, for the sake of increased rigidity and the avoidance of a sharp or raw lower edge, is

formed on its loweredge with a substantially horizontal integral lip or flange extending in the direction of the rear or back side of the board. This flange can advantageously be used as a support for the cigar lighter casing, and the main object of my invention has been to provide asimple, inexpensive, and easily applied and removed attaching device in the nature of a bracket and clamp by which the cigar lighter and its tip may be rigidly and securely mounted on and sup ported by the said flange. i

My invention, in one simple and practical form in which it may be embodied, is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in

which- Fig. 1 is a vertical section throu h the lower portion of the instrument boar of an automobile, showing in side elevation a cigar lighter mounted on the lip or flange of the i instrument board by my improved fastening device;

Fig.2 is a cross-sectlon taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, 5 designates the v lower portion of a flat sheet-metal instrument board, continuous with the lower edge of which'is a rearwardly bent substantially horizontal flat li or flange 6 7 designatesthe reel casing o the cigar lighter, with the 59 structural details of which the present invention-iisnot concerned Through a hole inqthe lower portion of the front edge wall of the casing extends the cord 8 carrying'the ioiri'cuit wires which latter are c'onnectedto. central and a sleeve terminals .of an ordinary 1 lamp sockets, in whichisfitted'the plugtnot shown) I carrying the filament. Encircling .fi eaplilgzandsocket with a-bayonet-j ointmenlnec'tion to the latter isa sleeve 10 terminat ,rngflat itsouterend-in a hollow pull knob 11. '50

An angle bracket comprising a horizontal limb =12, .a vertica 1 depending limb 13 at one endof the "limb 12, l and a tongue 14 at the other 1 end. of the ,limb is rigidly attached to the-front edge wallof the casing 7 by-ari-Vet w z15'passedlthrough:said tongue and wall. On

the longitudinal edges 1of-therlin1b 12 are-apgertured ears 16, and this bracket limb -12 forms .the lowermember-of a-clamp that gr ps .the iflange 6; .i-the uppjer 'member of said clampflconsisting-of a plate 17 ofsubstantially theisameq dimensions as the bracket limb 12 and formed onfits longitudinal edges with apertured ears 18registering with the {ears 316. The plate 1-7 ;i s formedat its :rear ,endwit-h la downwardly bent tailvpiece :19 that -ful-crums on -,the ,plate 12, as clearly shown? in ilfig. 1. T-he ears 18 lare tapped to receive binding screwsQO, b1 -which. the jtWO members of the clfiJIIlPi'fiI'fi'f,,fiHiWII'tIDGLJtlght rin mi tfiane l The depending limb 13 of the bracket is apertured for the passage of the socket 9, the latter being formed with an annular shoulder indicated at 9 in Fig. 2 which forms a stop co-operating with the margin of the aperture and, under the pull of the cord, holding the sleeve and knob in the horizontal position shown. Preferably a U-shaped guard or cover 21 for the cord is interposed endwise between the bracket limb 13 and the front wall of the casing 7 around the socket 9, said guard being secured in place by the screws 20 passed through apertured ears 22 on the side edges of the guard. From the foregoing it will be seen that the device above described avoids the necessity of providing a hole inthe instrumentboard for the passage of a supporting stem or shank of the casing, it provides a simple fastening cigar lighter,

device which can be manipulated solely by the use of a screwdriver, and, since the clamp ing screws are entered from beneath in 'a Vertical direction the operation of applying and removing them is easily performed due to the fact that there is ample room for the manipulation of the tool between the lower edge of the instrument board and the floor of the car.

I claim 1. The combination with the of an angle bracket comprismg a horizontal plate adapted to underlie the flange of an instrument board,an apertured vertical plate dependingfromthe front end of said horizontal plate forming'a holder for the socket member of the cigar lighter, and a tongue extending from the rear end of said horizontal plate secured to a wall of said casing, a co-operating clamp plate adapted to overliesaid flange and at its rear end bear on the horizontal limb of said bracket, and clamp wscrews passed through said 7 horizontal bracket limb and screwing into tapped holes in said co-operating clamp plate.- 7

2. The combination with the casing of a cigar lighter, of an angle bracket comprising a horizontal plate adapted to underlie the flange ofa-n' instrument board, an-apertured vertical plate depending from one end of said horizontal plate'and forming a holder for the socket r'nember of a cigar lighter, and

a tongue extending from the opposite end of I said horizontal plate and secured to a wall of said casing, a cooperating clamp plate adapted to overlie said flange and at its rear end bear on the horizontal limb of said bracket, a U-shaped guard fitted endwise between the Vertical limb of said bracket and the opposed wall'of said casing and formed with apertured ears, andclamp screws passed through said ears and said horizontal bracket plate :and screwing into tapped holes in said co-operating clamp plate.

JOHVN; SINKO.

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